Two Muncie library branches to close

10:50 AM,
Jan. 21, 2009

Volunteers Sharon Seager (right) talks to Jeanne McKinley while filing court records dated from 1827 to 1950 at the Local History Geneology Center across from the library in downtown Muncie. The center has records including courts, birth and death, yearbooks, and insanity records.

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THE STAR PRESS

MUNCIE - A steep drop in funding for Muncie Public Library will result in the closure of two branches.

In a letter to library patrons, MPL Director Virginia Nilles said that the Vivian Conley and Local History and Genealogy branches will close by June 1.

Materials from the genealogy facility will be shifted to neighboring Carnegie Library, and will remain available, while Carnegie's collections will be moved to the Kennedy or Maring-Hunt branches. Carnegie's computer lab, however, will remain open. ...